The American shooter's manual : comprising such plain and simple rules as are necessary to introduce the inexperienced into a full knowledge of all that relates to the dog and the correct use of the gun : also a description of the game of this country / by a Gentleman of Philadelphia county.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gentleman of Philadelphia County.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shooting.

Dogs--Training.

Dogs.

Game and game-birds--United States.

Game and game-birds.

Genre:

Advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century.

Engravings -- 1827.

Penn Provenance:

Leisenring, Julia B. (donor) (RBC copy)

Smith, J. C. R. (autograph) (RBC copy)

Smith, W. H. (autograph) (RBC copy)

Schiff, John M. (autograph) (RBC copy)

Bissell, Alfred E. (inscription) (RBC copy)

Enders, Ostrom (inscription) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

249, [9] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827.

Notes:

Errata on p. [251].

Last [6] pages are advertisements for sporting equipment.

Local Notes:

RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Julia B. Leisenring.

RBC copy has autograph ("J.C.R. Smith") of James Caldwell Robinson Smith (b. 1804) in pencil on front pastedown; autograph ("JCR Smith Newark") of the same person in pencil on front free endpaper; dated 19th-century autograph ("J.C.R. Smith 1827") of the same person on title leaf; dated 19th-century autograph ("WH Smith April 5th 1858 No 6 Fulton St Newark NJ") of William Halsey Smith (b. 1836) in pencil on front free endpaper.

RBC copy has laid in: typescript letter dated 18 December 1969 from John M. Schiff (1940-1987) on his letterhead to Alfred E. Bissell; paper slip with ms. note ("Ostrom, Second book every published on shooting in this country. Author's name is Kister. Please note page 184. [illegible word, struck through] Ronald") in blue ink with ms. annotation ("From Nut[?] Enders on my 65th Birthday") in pencil; paper slip with ms. note ("Given to me by Ostrom (Nut[?]) Enders at my 65th Birthday Party") in pencil. "Ostrom" is probably to be identified with Ostrom Enders (1902-1994).

RBC copy: left board detached.

Cited in:

Shoemaker 27838

OCLC:

49594849